Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 31

“By my hand and word,” said the harsh stranger, “your talk makes me think of a small boy or of an idiot.”

Who acts: harsh stranger, talk, your · What happens: say, make, think, talk · To what, where: harsh stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harsh stranger, talk, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 word	cc
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stranger	amod
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 talk	nmod:poss
16	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	nsubj
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 makes	obj
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 makes	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 boy	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 think	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 idiot	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 idiot	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 idiot	det
27	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the harsh stranger		by my hand and word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	present	your talk	the harsh stranger = stranger		tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	the harsh stranger = stranger not said here		of a small boy or a idiot	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk in a quote		your			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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